TONES : a study in synaesthesia

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[robertputneydrake]

@grafzahlization i am the walrus

[grafzahlization]

hey you people i'm enlightened, thought i'd let you know

[EmilyARTS]

@kurtywurty85 Exactly, the higher notes are lighter. I associate different colors with the SOUND of the music, though, so it gets confusing and hard to remember if the color of the sound of a note is completely different from the letter's color. The shining thing makes sense, because things have substance, shape, texture, essence, and even personalities to me.

[kurtywurty85]

@EmilyARTS E is yellow for me, like sometimes I'm convinced that it's actually shining if that makes sense. I kind of know what you mean about F sharp being fuzzy...and whenever I play a higher note, it's a lighter color. So high C is a pale yellow and low C is similar to dijon mustard. Haha sounds so weird to actually explain this.

[EmilyARTS]

@kurtywurty85 Oh my goodness . . . I also associate the letter A with red, especially when playing the piano. Also, C is yellow and B is blue for me too. So weird! F is green to me, though, G is orange, D is a light tan-ish yellow, E is dark blue. The sharps/flats have colors as well, usually modified versions of the natural key they are the sharp or flat of. For example, F sharp is green, but fuzzy, if that makes any sense at all. I get confused when people call it G flat.

[kurtywurty85]

Oh! And I realized...when I play piano, I kind of base the colors on the keys themselves. If I'm playing A, I see red because I associate that with A....G is green, C is yellow, D is brown, B is blue, and F is blue as well...but a darker blue. Indigo, to be exact. I am so weird okay I'm done.

[MistaRoburtz]

i'm a synesthine and. i felt brownish tones for the majority of the song. with some pink and green in the vocal sounds. it doesn't feel like colors, it feels like touch. and touch makes the color correlation to me. but they're vivid colors, usually, whereas this was bright vivid colors.

[MrDecibelDan]

Holy crap! For the first 12 seconds of silence I only saw the dark blue (which to me I hear a B-Flat in my head) and then when the sound came on I LITERALLY HEARD A B-Flat! I (personally) think having perfect pitch as well as synaesthesia rocks!!!!!!